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You're conflating the principle and the implementation. Meritocracy is good in principle, but your specific metric is bogus. Feel free to criticize the implemen
by tomp 6y ago
You're conflating the principle and the implementation. Meritocracy is good in principle, but your specific metric is bogus. Feel free to criticize the implementation/metric, but that's not a valid criticism of the underlying principle.
As an analogy, safe driving is a good principle. Assessing the safety of a driver by past behaviour ("this person hasn't crashed in a while") is decent but biased metric. E.g. "drunkenness" might be a better metric. But the choice of metric doesn't (in)validate the underlying principle.
- a1369209993 6y agoTo be fair, "it's impossible to implement this principle, and every attempt inevitably backfires" is, if actually true, a pretty damning criticism of a underlying principle in its capacity as something you'd actually want to implement.
- tomp 6y agoSame could be said about Democracy, freedom, peace, safety, equality, ... so suffice to say, I disagree.